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Autore |
Orosz Joel J |
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Titolo |
Curators and culture : the museum movement in America, 1740-1870 / / Joel J. Orosz |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1990 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Collana |
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History of American science and technology series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Museums - United States - History |
Museum curators - United States - History |
Popular culture - Museums - United States - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-294) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Prologue: Thesis, Definitions, and Structure; I. The Curio Cabinet Transplanted to the New World, 1740-1780; 2. The Moderate Enlightenment, 1780-1800: The Museum for the Respectability; 3. The Didactic Enlightenment, 1800-1820: The Decline of the Respectability; 4. The Age of Egalitarianism, 1820-1840: The Ideal of Popular Education; 5. The Age of Professionalism, 1840-1850: The Scientists Lead the Way; 6. The American Compromise, 1850-1870: The Synthesis of Popular Education and Professionalism; Epilogue: The American Compromise and Museum Historiography; Notes |
Select BibliographyManuscript Sources; Secondary Sources; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume argues that a small, loosely connected group of men constituted an informal museum movement in America from about 1740 to 1870. As they formed their pioneer museums, these men were guided not so much by European examples, but rather by the imperatives of the American democratic culture, including the Enlightenment, the simultaneous decline of the respectability and rise of the middle classes, the Age of Egalitarianism, and the advent of professionalism in the sciences. Thus the pre-1870 American museum was neither the frivolous sideshow some critics have im |
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